Remembering Latino Trailblazer Raymond Telles

Remembering A Latino Trailblazer
This Dec. 25, 1980 photo shows Raymond L.Telles, in El Paso, Texas. Raymond L. Telles, El Paso's first Hispanic elected mayor and a former U.S. ambassador to Costa Rica, has died, Friday, March 8, 2013. He was 97. (AP Photo/The El Paso Times, ) EL DIARIO OUT; JUAREZ MEXICO OUT; EL DIARIO DE EL PASO OUT
This Dec. 25, 1980 photo shows Raymond L.Telles, in El Paso, Texas. Raymond L. Telles, El Paso's first Hispanic elected mayor and a former U.S. ambassador to Costa Rica, has died, Friday, March 8, 2013. He was 97. (AP Photo/The El Paso Times, ) EL DIARIO OUT; JUAREZ MEXICO OUT; EL DIARIO DE EL PASO OUT

The late Raymond Telles may not be a household name, but he was a trailblazer for Latinos in politics; he was the first Latino elected mayor of El Paso, Texas and later became a U.S. Ambassador to Costa Rica. Host Michel Martin looks back on Ambassador Telles' life with former Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, Henry Cisneros.

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